OPPORTUNITY <DETECTED>
Deals That’ll Make Your Inner Engineer Squeal 🤓
Look, I know Black Friday is mostly noise.
"50% off!" on stuff that was marked up 60% last week.
Fake urgency.
Confetti graphics everywhere.
But I went through the actual deals and found the ones that don't suck (I know this is an engineering newsletter, so don’t worry, my picks are in line) : )
LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT THE DEALS
Max Out Your Productivity (The Desk Upgrade)
LG 34" WQHD Smart Monitor: $70 OFF <GRAB>
3440×1440 = three windows side-by-side. Or one absolutely obnoxious Gantt chart.
Pulsar Xlite V4 Wireless Mouse: Rare Discount <GRAB>
~54g. Ergonomic. Coding for 6 hours straight never felt so… questionable.
The Home Lab Starter Pack (The Tinker Deals)
Time to build that IoT project after months of procrastination.
Arduino UNO R4 Minima: 25% OFF <GRAB>
32-bit microcontroller = more power, more GPIO, more chaos. Automate everything.
Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense: 35% OFF <GRAB>
Tiny AI-enabled board with onboard sensors. Power: pocket-sized.
Raspberry Pi 5 Starter Kits: Up to 10% OFF <GRAB>
Build a home server, Pi-hole, or a toaster that sends system logs.
Interrupt Handlers: Gadgets & Life Upgrade
Sony WH‑1000XM5: $248 (Early Black Friday reported) <GRAB>
Silence is productivity. Top‑tier ANC + 30-hour battery = deep work mode.
Samsung T7 1 TB Portable SSD: Historically $89.99 in past BF sales <GRAB>
Stupid fast storage for VMs, Docker, and ML — tiny drive, huge velocity.
Steam Deck: OLED 512GB, BF‑deal signal <GRAB>
Game during deployments or remote dev — Linux handheld PC = power + fun.
Post-Deployment Therapy: Geeky stuff :D
Creality Ender‑3 S1 Pro 3D Printer: Creality’s Black Friday sale: up to $1300 off across their 3D printers <GRAB>
Print anything — from cable clips to cosplay weaponry or tools — with a reliable, dual-gear direct‑drive printer.
Cache In, Level Up: The Résumé Upgrade & Skill Steals
ByteByteGo: 50% OFF Lifetime Plan <GRAB>
The gold standard for system design interviews. Visual, structured, interview‑ready.
Educative Premium Plus: ~55‑60% OFF (BF signal) <GRAB>
Interactive, hands-on coding courses (not videos) in system design, ML, DevOps, and more.
Dev Must-Haves: The Toolchain Deep Discount
Tailkit: 50% OFF: COUPON ‘BLACKFRIDAY2025’ <GRAB>
A library of ready-to-use UI components, boilerplates, and templates built for developers — save hours on web app UI.
Scale to Zero AWS: 50% OFF (CODE: ‘BLACKFRIDAY2025’) <GRAB>
A production-ready, fully scalable serverless AWS kit + auth + landing page + API + payments boilerplate — great for startups or MVPs.